NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):
Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants
Project Title: Restoring, Enhancing, and Expanding Brook Trout Patch Strongholds in Thorn Creek (WV)
Organization:
Trout Unlimited, Inc.
Project ID:
0603.20.069792
Description:

Restore riparian buffers, in-stream habitat, eroding stream banks and aquatic organism passage within the Thorn Creek watershed and the Upper South Branch of the Potomac to the benefit of water quality, local agricultural producers, and brook trout strongholds. Project will result in the completion of restoration efforts to enhance a brook trout stronghold, the expansion of such efforts into the Upper South Branch of the Potomac, and the documentation of additional un-assessed brook trout patches.

Award Amount:
$476470.27
Location:
Upper South Branch of the Potomac River Watershed in Pendleton County, West Virginia